Jess McCabe

Monthly Archives: November 2014

Helena Partnerships will soon join forces with neighbouring Golden Gates Housing Trust, to form a new group structure called Torus with the aim of building more homes and creating jobs. Rob Young, its chief executive elect, talks to Jess McCabe about why the deal makes sense Rob Young is not one for self-promotion. As chief executive of Helena Partnerships since…

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Here at Inside Housing towers, we are about to move to a different floor of Canary Wharf. This has necessitated a clear-out. Buried at the bottom of my filing system, I found this old copy of the Guardian’s daily features supplement, G2. In which I had a column in Shortcuts about sexism in games. Glad to see so much has…

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Yesterday I chaired an extremely interesting/worrying session at the Homes conference about overheating in summer of new buildings and those that have been retrofitted to make them more energy efficient. The discussion was worrying – anecdotal evidence is being gathered, but no-one seems to know the scale of this problem. Here’s the story I very quickly filed for Inside Housing…

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Factory-built homes are meant to be the next big thing. But what will the legacy be for those trying to maintain them? Jess McCabe reports Offsite construction is becoming a buzzword. Earlier this year, Eric Pickles waxed lyrical in the Evening Standard about this modern method of building homes in factories. After visiting Circle Housing’s 51-home development of affordable housing…

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We’ve all been watching the rolling news coverage of the Ebola crisis. When we were considering what to run in Inside Housing’s health special, it seemed obvious to survey social landlords to see if they are planning on what they would do if a tenant or staff member caught Ebola: we found they are thinking about it, and have emergency…